Migrate from Raspberry Pi 4 to Raspberry Pi 5

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Hey everyone, migrating from a Raspberry Pi 4 to Raspberry Pi 5 is super easy and preserves all your apps and data.

Here are the steps:

  1. Ensure your Raspberry Pi 4 is running umbrelOS 0.5.3 or later.
  2. Shutdown your Raspberry Pi 4 Umbrel from Settings > Shutdown.
  3. Flash the latest umbrelOS on a microSD card (you may reuse your Pi 4 microSD card) using Balena Etcher. As of this comment, the latest umbrelOS version is 1.0.3. You can download it from here: https://download.umbrel.com/release/1.0.3/umbrelos-pi5.img.zip
  4. Connect your existing external drive (which was connected to Pi 4) to the Pi 5.
  5. Connect Pi 5 to your WiFi router with an ethernet cable.
  6. Power up your Pi 5, wait for ~5 minutes, visit http://umbrel.local and login with your existing password.

That’s it! Feel free to post below if you have any questions or if you face any issues.

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